HAUTE ECOLE

Quarterly Publication of Lipizzan

Association of North America
Volume 15, Issue 1

The Spanish Riding School

Returns to the U.S. in 2008

Five-Week West Coast Tour to Debut November 7, 2008

Through the cooperation of White Stallion Productions and The Spanish Riding School of Viennas Director Armin
Aigner, The Spanish Riding School will return to the United States in 2008. A ve-week tour of the West Coast is planned,
beginning November 7, 2008.
The tentative itinerary of cities and venues offering the performances will be:
Phoenix, AZUS Airways Arena
Los Angeles, CAthe Pond in Anaheim or The Staples Center in LA
San Jose, CACompaq Center
Portland, ORRose Garden
Seattle/Tacomathe Tacoma Dome, Key Arena, or Everett Events Center

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Spanish Riding School to Return in 2008
A limited number of performances will be presented in each
city. Tickets will be on sale for The Spanish Riding School
performances as soon as nal arrangements at each venue are
made (approximately six months in advance).
Special tickets (including group sales) will be offered by
each venue to Lipizzan owners and breeders before tickets go
on sale to the general public. Choice tickets will be held for
this group which will include a 30-minute clinic before each
performance.
For further information, contact White Stallion Productions
Producer Gary Lashinsky at (407) 366 0366, fax (407) 366
8099, or glashinsky@lipizzaner.com.

LANA Annual Meeting to be held October 7-8 in Wilsonville, Oregon

The 2006 LANA annual meeting is set for 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 7 in Wilsonville, Oregon at the Holiday Inn
and Convention Center. Following the precedent set at the November 2005 event held in Columbus, Ohio, LANA, USLR,
ALBA, and LFA will have their annual meetings at this time. The Lipizzan Symposium runs from October 6-8, 2006. USLR
and ALBA will have their business meetings on Friday and the annual meetings will be interspersed with several seminars on
subjects of interest to horse owners.
The Pacic Northwest Lipizzan Association (regional club) is hosting a presentation of Lipizzans at the DevonWood Equestrian Centre, featuring dressage, driving, and in-hand demonstrations. A parade of local Lipizzan stallions as well as sale horses
is planned. Food and a merchandise area will also be offered, and this event will be open to the public. Saturday evening is the
traditional banquet and auction. The auction proceeds are to benet the operaiton of LANA/USLR/ALBA so send what you
can to help out. Auction items may be sent by 9/22/06 directly to Gayla Edwards at 29971 SW Ladd Hill Road, Sherwood, OR
97140. The LFA meeting will be held on Sunday morning. Mail your registration form and payment to the Indiana ofce.

Standing
Pluto II DIXANA

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Three New Directors Join LANA Board

The Lipizzan Association of North America is pleased to announce the appointment of three new directors to its Board of
Directors: Gary Lashinsky, Oveido, Florida; Dr. Jaromir Oulehla, Bad Ischl, Austria; and Carolyn Proeber, Ocala, Florida.
These three join the current Board members John G. Gliege, Esq. of Flagstaff, Arizona; John N. Iannuzzi, Esq. of New
York, New York; Sandra Heaberlin of Pataskala, Ohio; Tom & Melody Hull of Anderson, Indiana; Lana Mayer of Slidell,
Louisiana; Dr. Delphi Toth of Valley City, Ohio; and Susan Castle of Bethlehem, Connecticut.
Gary Lashinsky has 45 years experience in the entertainment business and has been the producer/owner of White Stallion Productions (also known as The World Famous Lipizzaner Stallions) touring group for more than 35 years. His Lipizzan touring group has traveled throughout North and South America, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Australia, and Great Britain.
Visiting 140 cities each year across the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia, Gary Lashinskys Lipizzan touring
group is responsible for much of the grassroots promotion of the Lipizzans in the United States.
Dr. Jaromir Oulehla is the former director of the Spanish Riding School and Austrias Piber Stud Farm which breeds
Lipizzans for the Spanish Riding School. A former ofcer of the Lipizzan International Federation and a consultant with the
International Lipizzaner Union, he has evaluated Lipizzans in the United States since 1986. A respected veterinarian, Dr.
Oulehla has published several scientic publications as well as the being the author of Die Spanische Reitschule zu Wien
(The Spanish School of Vienna), which provides the history and traditions of the horses and riders of the Riding School
as well as the raising of Lipizzan horses.
Carolyn Proeber co-founded Art Calendar magazine in 1986 and publishes it with her husband, Dave. The magazine was
the rst of its kind, an art marketing information source for visual artists which taught readers how to make a living doing
what they love. An avid horsewoman and Lipizzan owner/enthusiast, as well as mother of four, musician, writer, and artist,
Carolyn has found the time to edit and design several technical artists books.
Directors are very important to both the day-to-day operation and future of The Lipizzan Association of North America.
Directors duties are onerous and time-consuming. Each director is responsible for some aspect of the organization and
devotes many hours per week dealing with everything from general inquiries to nancial reports; maintaining, expanding
and researching the extensive database of pedigree records as new horses are added; maintaining and updating the website;
merchandising; and breed promotion through the newsletter, advertising media and website operations. The new directors
will join an experienced leadership team and will help the LANA meet its two main challenges: to address international and
national growth, and to expand breed promotion opportunities.

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BOOK REVIEW
What do you do with a degree in ancient and medieval
history? You write!
Author of more than thirty books, including the Avaryan
Chronicals, The Throne of Isis, White Mares Daughter, and
Queen of Swords, Judith Tarr owns Dancing Horse Farm in
Vail, Arizona.
Writing as Caitlin Brennan, Judiths latest series combines two of her greatest loves horses and fantasy. The rst
in the new series, The Mountains Call was published in the
fall of 2004 and was followed by Song of Unmaking a year
later. Followers of this series will be pleased to know that
the world full of magic and intrigue continues in October
with the release of Shattered Dance.
Anyone owning a Lipizzan will understand why Judith
chose to make them gods in her wonderful fantasy series, for
each year when The Mountain issues its call, young men nd
their way to the Mountain to be chosen or rejected by the
white gods powerful beings in the form of white horses.
Only a few individuals are selected and rise to the rank
of Rider with sufcient magic to inuence time and future
events. In a thousand years, no woman of the Aurelian Empire has ever been called to the Mountain, until Valeria. Despite being accepted by the white horses, Valeria must overcome the resentment and traditions of the Riders and the
classic conict between love and destiny, shifting alliances
and power, continues.

Dr. Jaromir Oulehla to Visit Florida

December 2006 Evaluations in Oveido
Dr. Jaromir Oulehla, former Director of The Spanish Riding School of Vienna, will visit Gary and Elizabeth Lashinskys White Stallion Productions training facility December 7-8-9, 2006. White Stallion Productions currently has 21
stallions in work. Two of them, Favory Rubina and partbred Lipizzan Ebano, are in training with Olympic trainer Michael
Poulin.
Dr. Oulehla will be evaluating all of the Lipizzan stallions and mares (more than 40) owned by the Lashinskys. Many
of their horses were imported from the Spanish Riding School/Piber Stud Farm. Dr. Oulehla will also be evaluating some
of the Andalusian stallions imported by White Stallion Productions Inc.
For further information regarding this evaluation and visit by Dr. Oulehla, please contact Gary Lashinsky at (407) 366
0366 or email glashinsky@lipizzaner.com.

Piber fillies in the mountains.

Your American link to

Europes finest
Lipizzans.
Austrian Import
Services
Sales
Breeding
Keith Duly of Castle Lipizzans examines prospective stock Well take her.

Castle Lipizzans
275 Wood Creek Road
Bethlehem, CT 06751 USA
Phone: (203) 266-7008
Fax: (203) 266-5480
E-mail address:
castlelipizzans@aol.com
Web Address:
www.castlelipizzans.com

Ask about our newest sales and breeding

stock imported from the Piber National
Stud, Fall, 2005.

Atlas at Paxton Farm in May 2006, ridden by Brad Cutshal. Photo by Bob Tarr.

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How to Register Your Horse And Stallion Reports

For the past several years, Tom Hull, the LANA registrar, has been getting more and more registration applications
without the appropriate fees or DNA information. Because of the large amount of pending paperwork, LANA is updating
its registration procedures. Effective immediately if any registration or transfer paperwork is decient, Tom Hull will send
one (1) email to let you know what is missing and if the deciencies are not cured within 30 days, all paperwork and money
will be returned.
One of the biggest delays is caused when the registration paperwork is sent to Indiana but no DNA form and payment is
submitted to the University of Kentucky. All horses must be DNAd before registration and transfers are processed. The
DNA number now appears on the pedigrees but if you do not have the DNA number for the sire or dam of a horse you are
trying to register, you must email the registry to obtain the number before submitting the registration form.
There are only 2 reasons paperwork will be held up beyond 30 days and that is if you are registering an imported horse
where the imported horse has a pedigree that does not contain 5 generations and dates and places of birth. In this instance,
Tom must contact the Lipizzan International Federation and it can take up to 6 months or more before the information is
received. Likewise, if you are transferring a horse from another registry, it may take a little longer to verify that the DNA
information.
Imported Horse:
To Indiana:
1. Completed Registration Application
2. Original or Certied Copy of Pedigree (if original, it will be returned)
3. Bill of Sale (with nancial information blocked out) and Equine Transport Information
4. DNA (Form 1)
5. Check or Credit Card Made Payable to LANA
To Kentucky:
6. DNA (Form 2)
7. Hair sample (with root bulb attached)
8. Check Made Payable to University of Kentucky in the amount of $27.
Domestic Horse (sire and dam ARE registered with LANA)
To Indiana:
1. Completed Registration Application
2. DNA (Form 1)
3. Check or Credit Card Made Payable to LANA
To Kentucky:
4. DNA (Form 2)
5. Hair sample (with root bulb attached)
6. Check Made Payable to University of Kentucky in the amount of $27.
Domestic Horse (sire and/or dam ARE NOT registered with LANA)
To Indiana:
1. Completed Registration Application
2. Attach a copy of the pedigree(s) of the sire and/or dam not registered with LANA
3. Copy of the DNA report of the sire and/or dam not registered with LANA
4. DNA (Form 1)
5. Check or Credit Card Made Payable to LANA
To Kentucky:
6. DNA (Form 2)
7. Hair sample (with root bulb attached)
8. Check Made Payable to University of Kentucky in the amount of $27.
(Continued on Page 10)

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How to Register Your Horse And Stallion Reports (Continued)

Transfer of Horse (already registered)
To Indiana:
1. Signed original Pedigree
2. Check or Credit Card Made Payable to LANA
Transfer of Horse (not registered with LANA but with another organization)
To Indiana:
1. Completed Transfer Form;
2. Copy of the DNA report (if the horse is not DNAd you must complete the forms and submit them to
Indiana and Kentucky)
3. Check or Credit Card Made Payable to LANA
Stallion Reports: One more thing, every individual who has owns a stallion that has been used for breeding each year must
submit yearly Stallion Reports. Tom must be able to verify a newly registered horse from a Stallion Report.
Question: Why must I provide a Bill of Sale (with nancial information blocked out) and Equine Transport Information Imported Horse?
Answer: Unfortunately, there have been situations where imported horses have come through Canada or other
locations where ownership of the animal is in dispute. Likewise, more than one person has attempted to register
an imported horse.
Question: Why only 30 days before materials are returned?
Answer: The DNA forms are to be submitted simultaneously with the registration application/transfer paperwork. The hair sample, form and payment goes directly to the University of Kentucky (which is how LANA keeps
the DNA price down). A conrmation copy goes with the registration application/transfer paperwork to Indiana.
The University of Kentucky processes DNA requests very quickly and 30 days is more than sufcient time to get
a report. Also, paperwork has been held for months, waiting for someone got back to Tom regarding the naming
of a lly. It is unlikely that all 3 selections are taken but if this is the case, 30 days is more than enough ime to
pick a new name.
Question: Why must I send DNA forms to Indiana and Kentucky?
Answer: The cost of the DNA is $27, which is exactly what the University of Kentucky charges for processing
DNA. In order to keep the costs at this low rate and reduce handling and possibly damaging the hair samples,
we require that you send the hair sample, form and check directly to the University and the second form so that
we may keep track of samples processing at the University of Kentucky.
Question: Why must I DNA horse that I want to transfer when it is registered with LANA?
Answer: All horses, stallions, mares and geldings must be DNAd. When LANA began, it did not require bloodtyping for the rst three years to keep the costs down. Since 1995, all breeding stock and their offspring had to
be bloodtyped which was replaced later by DNA. There are few horses out there that have not been DNAd but
when we run across a horse that has not been DNAd, it must be DNAd and the cost is minimal, $27 per horse.
Question: What if I dont know the DNA number of a horse that was bred and registered with another
organization or I cant nd the DNA number for a LANA registered horse?
Answer: Fortunately, LANA has access to the DNA forms from the University of Davis, California. If you are
not able to attach a copy of the actual DNA report, Tom can obtain the information, but it will cause a delay in
turning around the paperwork. Also, if you cant nd the DNA number for a LANA registered horse, you need
only email LANA to get the number for the form.
Question: Why Cant I Type the Registration Application On-Line
Answer: After the LANA website is updated, you will be able to open and type a Registration Application or
Transfer form directly from your computer and save the form to your computer as well.. You will have to print it
out and mail it to the Indiana address. We are not yet in a position to electronically register or transfer horses.

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Ocala

Ocala

The Ocala area is beautiful. Northcentral Florida is rural, with rolling hills,
emerald green pastures, majestic live-oak
trees, and herds of contentedly grazing
horses. The skies are gorgeous; dramatic
thunder-bumpers glide by at dusk,
sunrises and sunsets are beautiful, and
rainbows are commonplace. The Milky
Way is our blanket at night.

Join us in
Ocala!
Call Dave
Proeber,
REALTOR
Foxfire Realty
5400 SW
Highway 200,
Suite 308
Ocala, FL
34474
352-875-4516
352-528-9625
Proeber@
FoxfireRealty.com
Visit our
Lipizzan farm
online at
Lipizzans.net

We have seasons here. Horseback

riding is pleasurable 360 out of 365 days
of the year, but many people here have
fireplaces in their homes and use them!
And contrary to myth, the summers here
arent unbearable, as the breezes are
nearly constant.
Rarely do hurricanes come through
north-central FL, but when they do, they
are much weaker than coastal storms.
Ocala is close to St. Augustine, Cedar
Key, and Daytona. A one-hour drive
takes you to crystal springs where you
can swim with the manatees. Orlando is
less than two hours away. The University
of Florida Gainesville is an hour away.
Several major airports are close by,
giving you lots of traveling options.
No ticks! In fact, all biting bugs are
almost nonexistent where we live. This
was a major, and very pleasant, surprise.
Lipizzans are a vibrant presence in
central Florida. Gary Lashinskys White
Stallion Productions is nearby in Oveido,
and several other Lipizzan breeders and
owners have farms in the area.

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BREEDERS CORNER
Rabensberg Lipizzan Ranch
PO Box 1388
Flagstaff, AZ 86002-1388
Phone: 928-380-0159
Email: jgliege@earthlink.net
Services: Stallion standing, horses for sale, boarding,
instruction, training
Stallion standing: Maestoso Primrose
The Lipizzan Connection
3275 Stonyvale Road
Tujunga, CA 91042
818-353-1616
E-mail: lipizzan_connection@msn.com
www.lipizzanconnection.com
Services: stallion standing, horses for sale
Stallion standing: Pluto II Dixana
Castle Lipizzans
275 Woodcreek Rd.
Bethlehem, CT 06751-1013
(P) 206-266-7008; (F) 203-266-5480
E-mail: scastle275@aol.com
Services: Stallion standing, horses for sale, boarding, clinics
Stallions Standing: Conversano Brentna I, Conversano Tropina-781,
Siglavy Flora-81
White Stallion Ranch
1053 Van Arsdale Street
Ovideo, FL 32765
(P) 407-366-0366; (F) 407-366-8099
E-mail: glashinsky@lipizzaner.com
Web: www.lipizzaner.com
Services: Stallion standing, horses for sale
Stallions Standing: Siglavy Aga1, Siglavy Gidrane1,
Siglavy Bonavista1, Pluto Virtuosa1
The Waltzing Horse Farm
130 Musk Road
New Berlin, NY 13411
607-847-9606
E-mail: waltzinghorsefarm@gmail.com
Web: www.waltzinghorsefarm.com
Services: stallion standing, horses for sale, training,
boarding, instruction, clinics
Stallions Standing: 499 Conversano Barbarina1,
Pluto II Dixana II
Kar-Mel Lipizzans
110 E 700 N
Alexandria, IN 46001-8739
765-644-3904
Email: thull@iquest.net
Web: hullhome.com
Services: Boarding, instruction, training

Huszr Farm
PO Box 426
Valley City, OH 44280-0426
Phone: 330-607-3750
E-mail: oracleisin@aol.com
Services: Boarding, horses for sale, instruction, training, driving
Silver Meadow Farm
224 Isaac Tharp St
Pataskala, OH 43062-8962
740-973-6225
E-mail: sheaberlin@yahoo.com
Services: horses for sale
Touchstone Acres
901 Old Leetown Pike
Kearneysville, WV 25430
(P) 304-724-1286; (F) 304-724-1285
E-mail: kamdonnelly@aol.com
Services: stallion standing, horses for sale, boarding, clinics
Stallions standing: 261 Maestoso Samira XXI2
Noble Lipizzans
P. O. Box 1056
Graham, WA 98338
253-847-6299
E-mail: noblelipizzans@gmail.com
Web: www.noblelipizzans.com
Services: stallions standing, horses for sale, in utero
pre-sales (mare lease), instruction
Stallions Standing: Favory II Candita, Conversano Antiqua,
Neapolitano Slatana II
1

Imported from Austria

Imported from Slovenia

Editors Note: With an eye toward expanding marketing opportunities for

our members, we are going to include a Breeders Corner page in each and
every newsletter issue of Haute Ecole. For everyone that subscribes to the
Breeders Corner package, your listing will be added to the LANA website.
This will get you triple exposure (1) the LANA newsletter, (2) the farm listing
on the website, and (3) the actual web version of the LANA newsletter. The
cost of this triple value package is $75, and your listing will run through June
2007. If you want in future listings, contact sheaberlin@yahoo.com.

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NEAPOLITANO
...
The Neapolitano Lipizzan line traces back to the horses bred in the Kingdom of Naples during the
15th to 18th centuries. Praised and revered by the Romans and known as Napolitani, this Italian bred
baroque horse found great popularity during the Renaissance for its beauty, elegance, sturdiness, docility and manageability.
Neapolitan bloodlines produced a powerful horse, capable of carrying soldiers into battle and yet
agile enough to disentangle himself and his rider from a battles or skirmishes with a sudden turn, rear
or buck. Thus, Neapolitan bloodlines were frequently added to other breeds to improve their beauty
and strengthen their abilities.
During the height of the Neapolitans popularity, there was not a royal house in Europe whose
stables did not own black, bay or gray Neapolitan horses for use in war, hunting, and for pulling carriages and carts. In 1785 Lipizza received three stud stallions, one of which was a 13-year-old bay
from Naples. Despite his not-so-popular bay color, the Neapolitano stallion proved himself an excellent school stallion and amply justied the choice of his Austrian
selectors. While the Neapolitano line ourished at the Austrian imperial studfarms, the Neapolitan breed itself declined due to wars
and bad breeding practices, so that by the end of the 20th century,
the purebred Neapolitan no longer existed.

(top left) Neapolitano Pepita (2003) owned by Carolyn

Proeber, Dunnellon, FL
(bottom left) Neapolitano IV Rockrose (1986) owned by
Maralyn Knudsen, Sherwood, MI
(above) Neapolitano IV Janina II (1981) owned by Melody
& Tom Hull, Anderson, IN

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Neapolitano (senior)
1790, Brown, Original Neapolitan
Neapolitano Bellamata
1807, Dun, Lipizza
Neapolitano Aquileja
1820, Gray, Lipizza
Neapolitano Groczana II
1829, Black, Lipizza
Neapolitano Valdamora
1839, Brown, Lipizza
Neapolitano Caldas
1851, Brown, Lipizza
Neapolitano Mahonia
1868, Gray, Lipizza
Neapolitano Trompeta
1875, Brown, Lipizza
Neapolitano Ancona VI
1887, Gray, Lipizza
Neapolitano Capriola
1905, Gray, Lipizza

Neapolitano Trompeta sired several stallions which were used at

various breeding facilities within the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
The description of the Neapolitano line comes from the Lipizzan International Federation and On the trail of the Neapolitan Courser: by Giuseppe Maria Fraddosio. The lineage and line drawing is
from Der Lipizzaner by Hinz Nurnberg, 1993.

Knudsens Lipizzans
Offers for Sale . . . Dorado

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765-644-3904 / thull@iquest.net
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and send ads and articles to:
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sired by a purebred Neapolitano stallion. He is very mild mannered,
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Anderson, IN 46015-1133
www.lipizzan.org

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